A while back I found a couple of interesting YouTube videos of a couple of black guys listening to some rock music. One in particular caught my interest, where they listened to “Walk” by Pantera, which is a great song. That was probably a year or so ago.
Fast forward to today and I found another black guy listening to and reacting to Elvis music. Now the fact that the guy was black is important because the draw of the video is that here is a black guy listening to what modern people would consider “white people music”, and thus he hadn’t heard a lot of these songs that many of us have.
(On a side note, I am not white, as I have said before, but am of Hispanic descent. Regardless my dad is pretty white, I think his mother was German, while my moms parents came directly from Mexico. Despite this my family grew up in SoCal listening to oldies and what is now considered classic rock.)
Come to find out that this is apparently a pretty big thing as YouTube started recommending all manner of black people watching white people music, and down the rabbit hole I went!
Now, the first guy is actually pretty good, though his reactions are often times very short and nothing more than “wow”, but occasionally you can see some serious emotion in his eyes when he hears certain lyrics, and sometimes he recounts a bit of his life growing up in South Los Angeles (I believe that’s what he said) and how the songs he is listening to make sense to him because of his upbringing. I particularly got hooked on watching his reaction to Elvis songs because nobody can resist the King, and this guy can’t either.
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HOWEVER, this is not the guy who I am making this post over.
There is another guy who’s channel goes by Soul Train Bro and, let me tell you – THIS guy…THIS guy knows music. Each one of his reaction/review videos is full of some deep stuff ranging from his childhood memories, original songs that were remade into rock songs to what he thinks the meaning of lyrics is. He goes over the bands history and reads history on the song, likely from wiki pages, as well. I have been hooked on his videos for days and I really feel like THIS kind of stuff is what YouTube is made for!
I especially love his video reviewing Led Zeppelin’s thunderous tour-de-force, When the Levee Breaks. Not only do you get to see into the soul of this guy as he recounts his grandfather playing the original, but he plays part of the original, which was recorded in the 1920’s. It is VERY informative and satisfying to watch:
If you have some time sit and watch/listen to his videos do it. It’s by no means a waste of time in my opinion.
One thing to note, and really this is one of the reasons why I decided to make a post about this guys channel, is that he often times throws some very real red pill truths into his reviews, though not necessarily because he is trying to teach anything remotely red pill, it simply comes from his life experience. In reviewing the Led Zeppelin song Babe I’m Going to Leave You he flat out states that when women challenge men with “its X or me” ultimatums that a man with a mission will pick his mission every time, and that women need to understand that ultimatums are not good ideas. In his review of the song Down by the Seaside, also a Zeppelin tune, he recalls the mother of a friend of his who “shit tests” him. He knows what a shit test is, he calls it a shit test and his story reveals a deep truth about women – that they all do it, even those sweet little church ladies.
Anyhow, just a recommendation for killing some time and listening to some good music, and what a guy who may not have heard it before thinks about it.
I’m not kidding: The radio started to play Led Zeppelin’s Kashmir while I was reading this post! While I’m not a particular fan I always love it when radio stations play songs that deviate from boring mainstream. That should happen far more often in my opinion.
If Soul Train Bro can recommend me some good music I’ll check out his channel some time.
I think you will find his reviews insightful and full of great information and memories. Its cool to see people reminisce about moments in time retrieved from memory by music they didn’t even realize the knew! Please do watch a couple of his videos just for support!
hey … heard about the fires … hope you and yours are okay.
The fires are both far North and far South to us, though we had one recently that was only a couple of hours away and it was pretty bad. The state is trying hard to blame it on the power company, but we all know that’s a crock. Hoping to leave this god-forsaken (literally) state within a couple of years. Sooner, if possible.Thanks for the concern!
SO glad to hear that.
where do you plan to go?
i always wonder why people stay there … however, so many cali people are moving here, raising the cost of housing, and then turning around and voting in the same stuff that makes the state bad now! we don’t want you if you’re gonna do that! lol!
Thinking North Carolina. We have some friends there already and my son is trying to get moved from the Marine base here to the one over there. Trust me, I don’t plan on voting anything in that would remotely resemble what they vote here in CA. I hate that CA people are so vapid, so stupid that they would move to another state and think that their voting habits had no affect on what caused the problems they just left behind. But, here we are…..
y’all are the good ones! you’re welcome to leave and go anywhere you want to! lol!
i hope it works out for y’all sooner than later.